President seeks India’s ‘more effective’ steps to solve Rohingya crisis

May 2, 2023

NEWS DESK President Mohammed Shahabuddin today (May 2) urged India to take “more effective” steps to ensure a safe and dignified repatriation of the forcibly displaced Rohingyas to their Rakhine state homeland in Myanmar. He came up with the call as Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Pranay Kumar Verma paid a courtesy call on him […]Continue Reading

Over 40 Myanmar Regime Forces Killed in Single day of Resistance Attacks

May 1, 2023

NEWS DESK At least 41 Myanmar regime forces were killed in a single day on Saturday when People’s Defense Forces (PDFs) and ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) stepped up their attacks against junta targets across the country, The Irrawaddy reports. The incidents were reported in Sagaing and Mandalay regions and Chin, Mon and Karen states. The […]Continue Reading

Army clears 18.5km road controlled by KNF in Bandarban operation

May 1, 2023

STAFF REPORTER The Army has launched an operation to eradicate the Kuki-China National Front (KNF), a local separatist armed organization, from Bandarban. Army members from the Bandarban region conducted the operation in the area around Baklai of Ruma upazila on Thanchi-Likri road from Monday (May 1) morning. According to the latest information, the KNF members […]Continue Reading

Smugglers desperate at border as conflict continues in Myanmar

April 30, 2023

NAIKHONGCHARI CORRESPONDENT, BANDARBAN Smugglers at the Bangladesh-Myanmar border are resorting to increasingly desperate measures as the conflict between the government and rebel forces in Myanmar’s Rakhine State continues. Traders in both countries are focusing more on smuggling, which is causing drug use and other illegal activities to spread in the border Continue Reading

How important is Rohingya repatriation in overall peace and stability of the bay of Bengal?

April 30, 2023

Lt. Gen. Dr. MOHAMMAD MAHFUZUR RAHMAN Recent messy land wars, including Russia-Ukraine, have obscured us the importance of the sea and coastlines across which most trades are conducted, where most humanity lives, and along which more economic and military activities will take place in future as in the past. In this continuum, no ocean is […]Continue Reading

Bangladesh Army Chief visits passing out parade in India

April 30, 2023

Chief of Army Staff General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed reviewed the passing out parade at the Officer’s Training Academy at Chinnai on the third day of his official visit to India on Saturday. After inspecting the parade, General Shafiuddin interacted with the media and answered their various questions, said a press release. Later, he attended the […]Continue Reading

Government’s efforts to implement CHT peace accord recognised by UN

April 30, 2023

NEWS DESK The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (PFII) has welcomed the progress towards the implementation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord. The Forum made this observation in its report of the 22nd Session held from April 17 to 28 in New York. The members of the Forum engaged with the […]Continue Reading

Extend more support for Rohingya, PM Hasina urges int’l community

April 30, 2023

NEWS DESK Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the international community to provide more support for Rohingya refugees who have fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh. She made the appeal in an interview with NHK, a Japanese public broadcaster, in Tokyo on Thursday during her four-day official visit to Japan. Many minority Rohingya Muslims have crossed […]Continue Reading

China says India border stable, contrasting with Indian view

April 28, 2023

NEWS DESK China’s defence minister says conditions along the tense, high-altitude border with India are “stable overall,” in sharp contrast with the far more pessimistic view from New Delhi, AP reports. The remarks from Li Shangfu came in a statement issued shortly after a meeting Thursday with his Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh in New Delhi. […]Continue Reading

6 Bangladeshi nationals arrested from Agartala airport without valid documents

April 28, 2023

NEWS DESK Six Bangladeshi nationals, including five women, were arrested from the premises of Agartala’s Maharaja Bir Bikram (MBB) Airport Thursday after they were allegedly found travelling without valid documents, The Indian Express reports. The arrested have been identified as Khaleda Begum, Munni Begam, Doli Begum, Zinnat Begum, Tania Begum and Ahad Hussein. They hail Continue Reading